Thunder & Lightning

Gioachino Rossini (Composer), Jacques Offenbach (Composer), Amilcare Ponchielli (Composer), Mikhail Glinka (Composer), Richard [Classical] Wagner (Composer), Georges Bizet (Composer), Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (Composer), Franz Liszt (Composer), Ludwig van Beethoven (Composer), Giuseppe Verdi (Composer), Alexander Borodin (Composer), Hector Berlioz (Composer), Modest Mussorgsky (Composer), Richard [1] Strauss (Composer), Gustav Holst (Composer), Sergey Prokofiev (Composer), Edward Elgar (Composer), Maurice Ravel (Composer), Georg Solti (Conductor), Yvonne Minton (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Yvonne Minton
• Conductor: Georg Solti
• Composer: Gioachino Rossini, Jacques Offenbach, Amilcare Ponchielli, Mikhail Glinka, Richard [Classical] Wagner, et al.
• Audio CD (November 10, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Decca
• ASIN: B00000DLUS
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #116,600 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #68 in Music > Classical > Opera & Vocal > Languages > Russian

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Overture to Guillaume Tell (William Tell): Galop

2. Gaîté Parisienne, ballet (music by Offenbach arranged by Manuel Rosenthal): Cancan 1 / Cancan 2

3. La Gioconda, opera in 4 acts: Dance of the Hours

4. Overture: Ruslan and Ludmilla, G. xivov

5. Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), opera, WWV 86b: Ride of the Valkyries

6. Carmen, opera: March of the Toreadors

7. 1812 -- Festival Overture, for orchestra in E flat major, Op. 49: Finale

8. Les Préludes, symphonic poem for orchestra, S. 97 (LW G3): Finale

9. Symphony No. 6 in F major ('Pastoral'), Op. 68: Storm

10. Aida, opera: Triumphal Chorus / Grand March

See all 18 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zoroaster), tone poem for orchestra, Op. 30 (TrV 176): Sunrise

2. The Planets, suite for orchestra & female chorus, Op. 32, H. 125: Mars

3. Romeo and Juliet, ballet in 4 acts, Op. 64: Dance of the Knights

4. Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36: Allegro con fuco

5. Night on Bald Mountain (Noch' na Lïsoy gore), symphonic poem, edited by Rimsky-Korsakov

6. Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1, for orchestra in D major, Op. 39/1

7. Marche de Rákóczy (Rákóczy March), for orchestra (Le damnation de Faust), H. 109

8. Tannhäuser, opera, WWV 70: Entrance of the Guests

9. Enigma Variations, for orchestra, Op. 36: Troyte

10. Enigma Variations, for orchestra, Op. 36: E.D.U.

See all 14 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Big, Beautiful Music!, May 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Thunder & Lightning (Audio CD)

This collection is great fun. I can't imagine a better way to drive home from work on a Fri afternoon than listening to Solti's "Thunder and Lightning" LOUD on an excellent car stereo. Order and ENJOY!!:)

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Solti at his best!!, May 13, 1999

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Albert Lynd (Edmond, OK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Thunder & Lightning (Audio CD)

A wonderful collection of Solti's intensity and drive in this music. He is at his best here and how nice to hear a variety of orchestras. Good "sampler" for future purchases.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Major Orchestras, Major Conductor, Major Power!, June 15, 2004

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Norman H Stevens (Lake View Terrace, California United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Thunder & Lightning (Audio CD)

I own multiple recordings of most of the works on Georg Solti's Thunder & Lightning, but I always hold this collection as my reference. Not only with his beloved Chicago Symphony Orchestra, but several other world class ensembles, the Maestro shows his monumental interperative talents to make old warhorses sound as if we've never heard them before. He could inspire an orchestra to "open the heavens or open a flower" with his baton. His presence is missed, but his work is forever.